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Published on May 20, 2026 at 12:15 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Sk aman khan Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI, has officially joined Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude. He has just joined the team responsible for training large AI models, a key step in shaping artificial intelligence. Karpathy joins the competition as the rivalry between OpenAI and Anthropic reaches its peak. Andrej Karpathy, one of the leading names in AI, has announced his arrival at

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain At a Cargill slaughterhouse in Texas, AI-equipped cameras scan every cattle carcass and let workers know when they're literally leaving too much meat on the bone. Even a 1% improvement in yield could produce millions more pounds of meat a year thanks to artificial intelligence. "I do believe it's the most transformative technology or innovation of my lifetime," Cargill CEO Brian Sikes said at an event in Iowa last month.

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism A new Wikipedia-style site is purportedly made entirely of AI-hallucinations, treating visitors to preposterous insights beamed from a nonexistent reality. Called “Halupedia,” its creators say that the “infinite” encyclopedia invents everything it contains on the fly, with each search term — or link click — becoming a prompt for an AI model on the backend, which relates information “in the deadpan register of

Published on June 3, 2026 at 08:30 Comment 0 𝕏 Print Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, "© Steve Jurvetson (Wikimedia) An American state is taking OpenAI to court and seeks to hold Sam Altman personally liable. A first in the United States, amid dramas attributed to ChatGPT. Florida has just opened a legal front that no one had crossed before. Its attorney general, James Uthmeier, filed a complaint on June 1 against OpenAI and its head, Sam Altman, accusing them o

Published on June 10, 2026 at 10:19 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Anthropic A mere few weeks after unveiling Claude Mythos, Anthropic is back with Claude Fable 5. It is an AI based on the same model, but constrained by automatic safeguards intended to prevent all misuse, particularly in cybersecurity. Only a few weeks after unveiling Claude Mythos and concluding that its AI was too dangerous to make available to the general public, Anthropic is back with a restricte

By incorporating spatial understanding into the continual learning process of foundation models, can robots better cope with changes in the real world?As a robot reaches out to grasp a fruit or vegetable, someone moves the target away. An object that was already in place is thrown back onto the table. In another set of experiments, the tabletop continuously rises and lowers, and the gripper must keep up with changes in the target’s height. In both grasping

I’m struggling, here, trying to figure out how I want to start this. Because I like the parallelism of beginning my first VisionQuest recap with Vision’s opening monologue from episode one and then starting my final VisionQuest recap with Vision’s closing monologue from episode eight. But that’s a writer’s detail, the kind of self-indulgent stylistic flourish that makes me happy but doesn’t necessarily serve you, the reader. The more truthful, and relevant

In 1964, the Civil Rights Act barred the humans who made hiring decisions from discriminating on the basis of sex or race. Now, software often contributes to those hiring decisions, helping managers screen résumés or interpret video interviews. That worries some tech experts and civil rights groups, who cite evidence that algorithms can replicate or magnify biases shown by people. In 2018, Reuters reported that Amazon scrapped a tool that filtered résumés

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new system for detecting unusual and potentially harmful data sharing between in-vehicle smart-tech and traffic management technology could prevent 9 out of 10 cyber attacks. Special sensors in much of modern transport act like the eyes and ears of the vehicle, helping it to see what's around it, know how fast it's going, and even "talk" to traffic lights. But, in connecting vehicles to traffic management technology lik

Shutterstock / Futurism If you thought AI customer service bots were bad, just wait until you need to convince a large language model that yes, you have been involved in a car accident, actually. According to new reporting by the Shreveport Times, officials at the Orleans Parish Communication District — the emergency dispatch agency for the city of New Orleans — are now integrating AI answering agents into its workflow. The new tool is called AI Emergency

A stylized photo shows Justin Brown, Lachlan Brown, and Brendan Brown (Brown Brothers Media / Futurism) In September 2024, an entrepreneur named Justin Brown uploaded a YouTube video in which he argued that writers should be “scared right now” about the rise of AI. “I think that one of the big dangers is that AI is going to take many people’s jobs,” Brown muses to the camera as he hikes through a national park in Australia. “This includes writers, by the w

As Gemini is increasingly woven into the fabric of Google, the way the chatbot accesses and interacts with your data is in a constant state of flux. Today, Google is announcing several big changes to how its AI adapts to you, giving it the ability to remember more details about your chats for improved answers. If that’s a concern, Google also has a new temporary chat option that won’t affect the way Gemini thinks about you. You might recall several months

Why the Kimi K3 open-weight model is a memory problemTwo different things determine what it costs to run a large model. One is how much calculation the machine does to produce each word. The other is how much of the model has to be held ready and instantly reachable the entire time it is working. The first is compute. The second is memory. Chip export controls have squeezed China hard at first, and Moonshot’s design reads as a sustained attempt to spend le

Anthropic has accused the Chinese firm Alibaba of launching the largest attack yet attempting to clone Claude, as China races to match the capabilities of Anthropic’s leading model following Mythos’ release and subsequent restriction from foreign markets. Ars obtained a June 10 letter sent to Senators Tim Scott (R-SC) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) one day ahead of a Senate committee hearing on “AI and the American Dream.” In the letter, Anthropic shared “

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The Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry announced on November 10 that the examination management system (external server) used for online examinations such as bookkeeping had been accessed without authorization and that a malicious program had been installed, raising the possibility that examination information for up to approximately 980,000 people (approximately 1.97 million records) may have been leaked. From the news release Details of the leak, etc

Meta announced Muse Ember, its smallest and most efficient artificial intelligence model to date. Unveiled by Mark Zuckerberg in a post on X, the new model was developed to perform repetitive tasks at scale, especially those carried out continuously by AI agents, such as tool calls, document analysis, data extraction, and programming subtasks.Continue after the advertisementThe model functions as alightweight agent or subagentwithin more complex artificial